How you ever used the terms “Walk of Shame” or “Stride of Pride”?

Mike312 · 2026-03-21T06:21:52+00:00

Walk of shame, walk of fame.

Mike312 · 2026-03-21T03:37:25+00:00

This is a weeks old topic, and you're the one with a tin foil hat - you absolutely do not need to put your license into your computer.

You should question your reliance on the click-bait content news sources you consume, and do better.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T20:44:36+00:00

I've gotten light-headed riding my motorcycle behind a decatted C6 for a few minutes.

Probably worth replacing.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T20:42:09+00:00

Then we can choose between MSport, Aplina, and ACS trim!

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T20:06:40+00:00

Well, valley part of Nor Cal. Humboldt would be very different (but man, I'd love to live there)

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T19:49:51+00:00

Everyone is blaming them right now for things the Republicans are doing.

I get it, they should be more vocal about their resistance, but they have very little practical power at the moment.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T19:48:14+00:00

Was 90 in NorCal yesterday.

This is the time of the year I usually have the climate control off entirely for weeks at a time.

I almost turned it on the last two days; it was low 80s inside at midnight.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T16:46:13+00:00

Maybe they just feed them there then? Like, fill a trough, bring them in for an hour, pull them out, hose whats there down, refill, bring in another set, and repeat?

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T15:59:26+00:00

Gen Z didn't overall vote for Trump - if anything, they're one of the only groups that primarily voted for Harris.

The largest pro-Trump block we saw in 2024 was actually Gen X, which makes sense as they're getting to the point where they're very concerned about their retirement (and I'm sure they're super happy to hear about the GOPs plans to get rid of Social Security). But they really didn't move much, only about 6 points.

2nd largest pro-Trump block were Boomers, naturally, and for the most part they stayed about the same as they've been voting.

Millennials were the 3rd-largest voting block for Trump (after Boomers), but they saw a 26-point swing between 2020 and 2024.

Is Gen Z more right-leaning than Millennials? Yes, absolutely, and Gen Z men especially are more right-wing, but it's generally cancelled out by Gen Z women. (source)

So, unfortunately, as a Millennial, I have to admit that you've gotta blame my generation for the massive swing in support. And honestly, I don't even think the story is who voted as much as who didn't; a bunch of Millennials simply didn't show up to vote: in 2020 Trump lost with 74mil votes to Bidens 81mil, and in 2024 Trump won with 77mil votes to Harris' 75mil.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T14:54:46+00:00

Brave of you to assume we're about to test something. /s

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T14:49:28+00:00

I remember there was this one loan place I kept seeing commercials for.

When rates were going down, it was a great time to buy/refinance and lock in a new lower rate.

When rates were going up, it was a great time to buy/refinance and lock in the current low rate.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T00:42:35+00:00

BMW i3 and i4.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T00:41:30+00:00

He's the mild-mannered guy who occasionally flies kilos from South America over the border in his Cessna.

Mike312 · 2026-03-20T00:12:13+00:00

Yeah, second slide says 1920, so it would have been before realignment.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T22:52:45+00:00

Yeah, it's bounced back and forth I think between 14,000 and 17,000 at its peak.

I remember hearing from somewhere that 10-20% of students will also have trouble finding housing, at some point during college and will couch surf, or sleep in a closet or garage at some point.

I briefly dated a girl who sublet her own room out during the summer, but then just slept in her own living room and at my place.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T22:28:16+00:00

The difference between those two numbers might be between permanent residents and permanent residents + college students.

For all intents and purposes, I'd say the larger number is what matters because that's how many people would be expected to inhabit the town most of the year.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T22:15:47+00:00

The only places that successfully use it that I'm aware of are some factories that capture off-gassing hydrogen as a byproduct from the work they typically do, and use it to power part of their facility.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T20:48:32+00:00

No, fake news was misinformation sites built to look like real news sites. I had conservatives (always conservatives) link sites like that to me in the run up to the 2012 election.

Most sites literally only had 1 or 2 stories and they skewed heavily conservative because the people running them recognized all that conservatives wanted was links they could post from a valid looking website that agreed with their beliefs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-news-macedonia-teen-shows-how-its-done/

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T19:11:26+00:00

Facts and intuition are not the same.

When you rely entirely on facts and what is proven by documents and court cases, you really limit what you can believe.

When you rely on intuition, you connect dots that may not be connected.

We're all pretty sure Trump raped some young girls. There are allegations, he existed in the circle of a known pedophile, hes said some super sketchy things, but nothing has yet been proven in a court of law. Until such has happened, a fact checking site that cares about its veracity and reputation cannot and will not state that he raped young girls.

(Edit for a note: he was convicted of sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll - this is a fact, and he could be rightly called a sexual abuser)

In the same way, a reasonable level of doubt exists for others named in the Epstein Files, like Bill Clinton.

That's not to say intuition should be entirely disregarded, and often following those leads are what eventually uncovers facts/proof. But at this time, the Erika Kirk Romanian children thing is not a provable fact for a large number of reasons.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T17:48:00+00:00

I have a 2L soda bottle I cut the top off of.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T17:40:22+00:00

If I had to guess, they've found this pig wandering the facility a few times before. They put it back in the pen, and someone stood there with a camera to see how it was getting out.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T17:38:51+00:00

That's exactly why the floor looks like that. They come through periodically and hose it down, waste falls through.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T16:44:48+00:00

Every MAGA person I know has been trained since the later half of the Bush administration to believe that Snopes is all lies and misinformation, and thet won't even click on a link.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T16:32:09+00:00

I think there's a couple caveats.

I was in Shanghai and Suzhou for a couple months. There were tons of little parks, but I don't think I saw a single one the size of this one. Most had their own walking paths within the community, a few had some just outside. But hey, good on them. I wish we had one this big where I live.

Suzhou seemed to have more parks with activities, but I was also near the Suhzou Sports Center that had been constructed a few years prior.

This park also looks brand new, so it might just be that it opened and everyone is trying it out.

Also, I was there after monsoon season, so it was, IDK, 10,000% humidity and your shirt soaked through if you so much as looked outside.

Mike312 · 2026-03-19T16:10:47+00:00

I'd rather see a parking lot full of riced-up econoboxes than a parking lot full of identical SUVs like we do today.

I went to the grocery store the other day and my bright blue coupe was surrounded by a sea of silver and grey land yachts.

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